x, 533 pages ; 25 cm

The author brings a remarkable eye for humanizing detail to bear on the woman our Presidents married and the result is a biographical feast

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-522) and index

Martha Washington -- Abigail Adams -- Martha Jefferson -- Dolley Madison -- Elizabeth Monroe -- Louisa Catherine Adams -- Rachel Jackson -- Hannah Van Buren -- Anna Harrison -- The Tyler wives : Letitia Christian Tyler and Julia Gardiner Tyler -- Sarah Childress Polk -- Margaret Taylor -- Abigail Fillmore -- Jane Pierce -- Mary Todd Lincoln -- Eliza Johnson -- Julia Dent Grant -- Lucy Webb Hayes -- Lucretia Garfield -- Ellen Herndon Arthur -- Frances Cleveland -- Caroline Harrison -- Ida Saxton McKinley -- The Roosevelt wives : Alice Lee Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Roosevelt -- Helen Herron Taft -- The Wilson wives : Ellen Axon Wilson and Edith Bolling Wilson -- Florence Kling Harding -- Grace Coolidge -- Lou Henry Hoover -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Bess W. Truman -- Mamie Doud Eisenhower -- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy -- Lady Bird Johnson -- Pat Nixon -- Betty Ford -- Rosalynn Carter -- Nancy Reagan

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